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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIT FOR TAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I often pass a gracious tree
Last Line: Quite probably you don't know mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy
First Line: I often pass a gracious tree
Last Line: Quite probably you don't know mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy
I OFTEN pass a gracious tree
Whose name I can't identify,
But still I bow, in courtesy
It waves a bough, in kind reply.
I do not know your name, O tree
(Are you a hemlock or a pine?)
But why should that embarrass me?
Quite probably you don't know mine.
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